everdumb

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by everdumb 6y ago
I guess I don't see the point of this. This isn't going to be anything about needing a nicotine fix, I imagine if you're trying to stop smoking vaping and slowly cutting back the nicotine intake is an obviously better solutio
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by everdumb 6y ago
He didn't say the iliad is the only book you need. This is more the literary equivalent of saying the best tetris is gameboy tetris.
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Sale of US TikTok thrown into disarray as China rewrites tech export regulations(businessinsider.com)
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by everdumb 6y ago
Is that really a proven fact? Ending Prohibition didn't end the Mafia.
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by everdumb 6y ago
When I was a child, Smear the Queer was a game all the boys played. Fag was a commonly used slur. When I was in high school the state of California told gay couples to go fuck themselves. Societal progress is a wonderful thing to see.
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by everdumb 6y ago
Yes but that's my point. So many facets of society just have this rotting sword of Damocles hanging over them. Academia, the private sector - at this point is there any real difference?
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Palantir: On Business, Cults, and Politics(diff.substack.com)
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by everdumb 6y ago
the Doyle estate argues that, while they admittedly lost the copyright to all of the Holmes stories written before 1923—i.e., most of them—into the public domain back in 2014, it’s only in the latter stories that they still have the rights
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by everdumb 6y ago
The engineering elite of Silicon Valley may know more than most about building software,” Karp wrote. “But they do not know more about how society should be organized or what justice requires. The utter lack of self awareness is beyond sham